Grateful

To start, The other day I was walking around in a little german city, in the alps, with all the other exchange students, just simply walking around the city. It was raining, and it was cold, and I was carrying around all of my ski stuff from the weekend, but it was just simply a really really nice feeling to be there in that moment at the time. To think how grateful I am to be here in Germany, and just simply how amazing it is, and how lucky I am to do this. I looked at what i was doing at the same time last year, probably sitting downstairs at home playing video games. This year I was walking around in Germany with exchange students from all over the world, and I was speaking German, Spanish, and English. It is just such a cool feeling, and it makes me feel like I am actually doing something big and important for once in my life.
After this I thought about something not so enjoyable. I have already been here for 4 months almost 5. And the new exchange students just recently came, the ones that go from January to January. (Australians, Brasilians, Argentinians etc.) That makes me an oldie. Which are the group of exchange students that have been here longer etc. But that just feels soo strange. I still remember the day I came here perfectly, and everything was soo new, and I was the newbie exchange student. And meeting all of the previous oldies. But that was soo long ago, Berlin tour is already over, and we only have 4 more rotary events until we go home. One of them being the next one, is meeting the outbounds. The germans that are abbout to leave in the upcoming summer. This all just brings back memories of me, one year ago being that outbound. And for all of you outbounds reading this, hang on to that moment, and start to write your blog then if your going to write one. That feeling of starting this whole thing and meeting the inbounds is such a great feeling, and its a good idea to capture that. But i just remember being there and thinking how cool the inbounds where, and now thats me, and also being an oldie. The time really flys here and I am almost half way over with my year.
The reason i was in this little german city in the Alps was last weekend we had another rotary weekend and we all went skiing in Oberstdorf for 2 days. It was so amazing. Lots of fun like always, and these weekends with Rotary have honestly been the best weekends of my life. They are soo fun, usually from Friday to Sunday, every moment is enjoyable, whether we are doing anything special or not. Next weekend I will be going back to Wasserburg to make some Mexican food with my friend Victor from Mexico. Then the first week in February I will be going way north of Bavaria, to stay in the house of another american exchange student. We will be celebrating a birthday of an Exchange student from Argentina. Possibly watching the superbowl as well at a crazy hour in the middle of the night. After that is my birthday on tuesday, and the following saturday I am treating myself to a FC Bayern Munich game with a friend from Rosenheim (Tobi). THe weekend after that is another Rotary weekend meeting the Oubounds, and then we have a week off of school for Faschings. This apparently is some huge German Festival, or Carnival, which includes dressing up in ridiculous costumes and doing ridiculous things. Then on the 22nd of February, one of my best friends in the world is coming for 5 days. I met her through rotary as an outbound and she right now is an exchange student in Norway (From wisconsin) That will be great. Well thats been it for right now. Life has been really enjoyable and it gets better everyday with German. I have really been learning to just go with it in Life, and not try and change things to the way you want it. Take what you have and make the best out of it.